The Everlasting
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters—but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.
Centuries later, Owen Mallory—failed soldier, struggling scholar—falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives—and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.
But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend—if they want to tell a different story--they’ll have to rewrite history itself.
"Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
"An utter masterpiece… I loved every single page." —Rachel Gillig, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of One Dark Window
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The line between how history is made and how it’s remembered becomes gloriously blurry in this gorgeous, often poignant fantasy novel. The nation of Dominion was forged ages ago through the courageous service of the knight Sir Una Everlasting. Her story is so old that it’s become a legend, and Professor Owen Mallory is in love with that legend. But when a magical object sends him back in time to write a first-hand account of Sir Everlasting, they both buckle under the pressure of personal responsibility and legendary mythos—again and again. Una turns out to be a very real, honourable, battle-scarred person whom Mallory comes to adore even more than the folk tale. And yet, according to the legend, she must die heroically so Dominion can be founded. Alix E. Harrow brilliantly leads us to contemplate the true meaning of Una’s ultimate sacrifice through a time loop that forces her (and the befuddled Mallory) to relive countless iterations of it. Smart and compelling, The Everlasting is a fantastic tale about how stories shape us.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Harrow (Starling House) evokes the romance, magic, and tragedy of Arthurian legend in this breathtaking chivalric fantasy. Owen Mallory has always loved tales of Sir Una Everlasting, the mythic knight who helped Yvanne, the first queen of Dominion, gain her throne. A scholar at heart, Owen devotes himself after returning home from war to researching Una Everlasting and the history of the Middle Dominion. The Death of Una Everlasting is a book so rare that most serious scholars believe it doesn't even exist—until it shows up on Owen's desk one day, delivered with no return address. Desperate to keep the tome to himself, Owen brings it home and begins to translate it, only to have it stolen a few days later. Left in its place is a note card with an address, the search for which sends Owen back in time to the Middle Dominion, where he meets Una herself. As Owen leads Una to the grail and the events he knows will bring about her death, he finds it increasingly difficult to see her as a mythic hero, instead coming to know her as a fully rounded human. Told in alternating first and second person, Owen's and Una's timelines twine around each other as the past impacts the present impacts the past—and behind it all is a mysterious guiding hand. This impressively constructed plot keeps the pages flying on the way to a stunning finale. Harrow remains at the top of her game.
